Data debacle in the UK

Check this out:

Chancellor of the Exchequer Alastair Darling reveals that computer discs holding personal data on 25 million people and 7.2 million families have gone missing.

The chancellor says the details included names, addresses, dates of birth, Child Benefit numbers, National Insurance numbers and bank or building society account details. Paul Gray, chairman of her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC), which lost the discs, has resigned over the affair.

The Metropolitan Police are investigating the loss of the password-protected discs which were wrongly sent last month to the National Audit Office (NAO) but never arrived.

Want to know more?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7100000/newsid_7105200/7105204.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&asb=1&news=1